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PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte is set to travel to Iloilo this week to pay his last respects to Joanna Demafelis, the Filipina domestic worker whose body was found stuffed in a freezer in an abandoned apartment in Kuwait. Presidential spokesperson Harry…

LAMENTING the difference, former President now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo recalled that it only took two hours for the Pasay Regional Trial Court to issue an arrest warrant against her while months passed before the Muntinlupa RTC issued the same…

AN official of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) yesterday said that there are discrepancies in the tax declarations of Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno. However, the questionable figures and details cannot be disclosed to the public unless allowed by the…

Over alleged failure to file statements of assets, liabilities and net worth THE Office of the Ombudsman has charged a former governor and his son before the Sandiganbayan over their alleged failure to file their statements of assets, liabilities and…

This was disclosed by Atty. Clarence Guinto, Director of LTO-NCR, during an interview yesterday. Guinto said most of the employees promoted have been in the agency for almost 20 and even 25 years. “Deserving lahat ang promoted employees, lahat sila…

PRESIDENTIAL special assistant Christopher Lawrence ‘Bong’ Go yesterday appeared before the Senate and insisted he was innocent of the charge that he tried to “meddle” in the P15.5 billion Frigate Acquisition Project of the Philippine Navy. “I did not intervene…

THE chairman of the House committee on good government and public accountability investigating the Dengvaxia controversy has asked health experts to voluntarily disclose their potential conflicts of interest every time they make a statement in the media. “The mere perception…

BEIJING’S move to assign Chinese names to five seamounts in Benham or the Philippine Rise does not have any impact on the sovereign rights that Manila enjoys over the 13 million-hectare extinct underwater volcano ridge, House Senior Deputy Minority Leader…

THE local-based religious group Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) described as “perfect timing” the visit of United States ambassador to the Philippines, His Excellency Sung Kim, to the church’s executive minister, Eduardo V. Manalo, early last week. “The timing is perfect…

PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Harry Roque said President Rodrigo Duterte's trusted aide, Special Assistant to the President (SAP) Christopher Lawrence 'Bong' Go, is "ready" to reveal the "truth" when the Senate convenes today to look into the multi-billion peso frigate acquisition by…

“THE Liberal Party has resorted to an avalanche of black propaganda to circumvent the cases filed against them,” Duterte Youth chairman Ronald Cardema said as he decried the allegations hurled by the LP against the administration. “It’s obvious that the…

THOUSANDS gathered over the weekend at Quezon Memorial Circle to express support for the shift to federalism. People from various parts of the country attended on Saturday the launching of “Fed-ibig,” a movement supporting the shift to a federalist system…

A 33-year-old wife of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) was seriously wounded when she was stabbed 46 times by two robbers who broke into her rented apartment Friday afternoon in Caloocan City. Joanne Bongares, of Sto. Cristo Avenue, Sagrado Village,…